by Molly Gloss
First published 2025
This anthology brings together ten science fiction stories that keep their feet planted firmly on Earth. Cory Doctorow pits hackers and indigenous activists against pipeline executives in "Spill." Greg Egan explores a virus that steals memories from survivors in "Vouch for Me." A botanist schemes against corporate overlords in Ben Barman Ghan's "Phosphorescence." Molly Gloss follows a widow learning to bend time in "Wápato." Nancy Kress takes readers inside an experimental treatment for coma patients in "The Alice Run." Rich Larson imagines humans negotiating with orcas over plankton rights in Patagonian waters. Pat Murphy sends a traveler across climate-ravaged America hunting digital ghosts. A granddaughter competes for love as the world ends in R.P. Sand's "Eternity is Moments." Eric Smith chronicles a father and son's escape from alien-occupied Philadelphia. James Van Pelt shows a teacher fighting student devices while teaching Hamlet. These stories find the extraordinary within familiar landscapes and human struggles.
Genres: short-stories, science-fiction, environmental-science, climate-change, activism
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, underdog-heroes
Setting: Earth, Patagonia, Philadelphia
Period: 21st-century
262 pages · Paperback · Infinivox